To answer these questions, she combines different cosmological probes such as galaxy clustering, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clusters. Her research group will then apply their newly developed analysis methods to data from the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Simons Observatory. “With our work, we aim to shed light on two fundamental pillars of our cosmological model, dark energy and inflation,” said Assistant Professor Andrina Nicola, who is also a member of the Matter Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) at the University of Bonn.
Andrina Nicola studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where she also obtained her PhD. She then worked as a postdoc at Princeton University in the US before moving to Washington University in St. Louis as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. She has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn’s Argelander Institute for Astronomy since May 2023.
Seven ERC Starting Grants for the University of Bonn
Further six researchers at the University of Bonn are being funded by the European Union with an ERC Starting Grant. More detailed information can be found in the University of Bonn's press release.